How Copilot for Microsoft 365 can work with your external data

[@CollaborationSimplified]

Excellent video! So important having secure access to data outside of graph - well done!

[@myomyatsu8343]

I am new to copilot, one thing i want to know is can we conncet function calling (my customize api) to copilot? I appreciate everyone's knowledge

[@miratubin1972]

Odličan video❤

[@MSFTMechanics]

Thanks

[@dinocool6392]

can the data stay in australia, or do we have send our data to the USA and back? data sovereignty is a big deal for enterprise.

[@DevonLehmanJ]

Where can I find the API spec I would need to fulfill to create a connector? Not quite sure what that would be called to know what to search for.

[@MSFTMechanics]

It's just a Microsoft Graph connector, see learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/connecting-external-content-build-quickstart

[@csmith848]

Can this be used to connect our Microsoft cloud tenant with our Dropbox cloud data? If so, any info on how this process works would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[@msand2396]

Would be interesting to see how we can put user bases access security on top of this. We don't want the entire sharepoint site och external API to be available to anyone using the copilot.

[@MSFTMechanics]

You can define permissions for both plugins and connectors by user or group.

[@kuldeepshrivastav4769]

how to configure jira plugin in copilot?

[@davidgikas7051]

Thanks for the video. I would like to ask if there is a known way to invoke microsoft 365 copilot through code maby python. :D

[@nghiatran1509]

How to use copilot to convert xbrl zip files from SEC to excel ? Thank you very much.

[@changwufei5]

Excel workbooks can only have around 1M rows, which is why the SEC and many orgs don't use it for large datasets e.g. csv, MS Access DB The data is XML data and if you want to just try to force it asking any LLM Copilot, OpenAI, Gemini "how to extract contents of zip file" then "how to convert XML formatted file to CSV or Excel" I would use python, google collab is a good place to run this stuff if you want to play around with it but the answers to the prompts above will get in you the right direction. I think you are hoping for it to do some data engineering which is a bit more complicated than "EXTRACT" Good luck

[@sonichedgehog36]

Will there be any deep dives (the hands-on reviews) into the new Surface products this year on Microsoft Mechanics? I feel like not including that was a huge miss on Microsoft’s part! I would not put all my eggs and videos into the AI bandwagon basket!

[@MSFTMechanics]

We are huge fans ourselves of Surface and really wanted to do a deep dive on the Laptop Studio 2, but the timelines unfortunately didn't work out for the Fall event. -Jeremy

[@eminacokic3751]

Can Microsoft Graph connectors and/or plugins be used to bring in SharePoint on-prem data ? Thanks

[@prathampandey]

Yes it can.

[@ddmadhu]

Can it be done for Exchage 2019 server

[@ferhatkurt8898]

Should the copilot not be available today?

[@Die_Biene]

For whom? As far as I know, it is still in a closed beta phase with only a handfull of big customers.

[@ferhatkurt8898]

@@Die_Biene No, in the Last MS annouchement they Said IT will be available for Today ! I thought bec i have Birthday, they make Just for me 😅

[@Die_Biene]

@@ferhatkurt8898 Do you have any sources, like Blog posts, YT videos or so? I can't tell that I read something that Copilot has been announced for public audience but maybe I missed it...

[@sophware]

the Windows 11 update is today, Microsoft 365 Copilot is Nov 1@@ferhatkurt8898

[@espenlund9131]

​@@ferhatkurt8898thought it was 1 November?

[@yantaosong]

copilot have logined in jira ?

[@MSFTMechanics]

The login is in the context of the user in this case. There are a few authentication options per the API.

[@D_AVANTGARDE]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📊 Bring external data into Copilot with connectors or plugins for real-time AI responses. 03:21 📚 Semantic Index improves search in Copilot by indexing SharePoint and user documents. 05:15 ⚙️ Enable Graph connectors in Microsoft 365 Admin Center to integrate data. 06:36 📦 Plugins retrieve real-time data without pre-indexing, including OpenAI, Teams, and Power Platform connectors. Made with HARPA AI